My neighbour Vi.
I took the pictures of Vi as part of my www.whatisengland.co.uk submission....please take a look at the one there, posted on 1st March, and see everybodies entry from around England, I'm really excited about it.

I don't have many of my dad, I must take more :)

Good News!!
I've been featured on the NPR website (big thanks to Callie Neylan) http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/02/on_experimentation_and_camera.html
It's so nice seeing my pictures somewhere else.

Inspired by crush on La Roux we had fun messing around with hair and make up.
The clothes Gracie's wearing belonged to her grandmother and to her great-grandmother ...still just as beautiful.

so a few days ago i put up a picture on flickr because my daughter said she liked it and asked why i hadn't posted it before.
anyway, people liked it and said so which is always nice but i realised i felt uncomfortable with it, that it didn't represent what i'm about anymore, and that was why i'd been reluctant to put it up when only a few months ago i was posting similar.

with portraits, i don't want fancy clothes or makeup (unless that's what you wear anyway) or 'trying to be sexy pouts' or toes pointing inwards or exaggerated colours or fancy textures , i just want you, as you are, in a good light, just being you, i'd like to take everything away so we're just left with the bones so we can actually see and recognize and connect with who's there.
i want a slight feeling of being unsettled because we feel that we've seen ourselves in someone else.
and i'm aware i have a long long way to go.

and this is maisie again, just being maisie.
(click pic to see big)

You could do a disco with the best music in the world if you wanted to.

Telly on a saturday morning in december.